Pointless, maybe...

Playlist
Herbie Hancock - My Point of View
Kenny Dorham - Una Mas
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond*
Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven
Miles Davis - Miles in Europe
Hank Mobley - No Room for Squares
Grachan Moncur III – Evolution*
Art Blakey - Free for All
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine/Four & More
Lee Morgan - Search for New Land
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer
Art Blakey - Indestructable
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff *
Miles Davis - Miles in Tokyo
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Tony Williams - Life Time
Miles Davis - Miles In Berlin
Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song*
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Miles Davis - E.S.P
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Sam Rivers – Contours*
Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera
Lee Morgan - The Gigolo
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
Miles Davis - Plugged Nickel
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique
Miles Davis - Circle in the Round
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child
Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky
Andrew Hill - Grass Roots
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis - Water Babies
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast XVII
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast XVIII
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast XIX
(*track from various artists compilation)

A lovely day...



I am still stuck in the house however – but I have Meg the Black Cat for company...



Well now the pointless project I thought of last night as I listened to the best of the Miles Davis Quintet from 1965-1968 last night was to see how many albums I had on which the members of said quintet, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams played in the period from 1963 to 1968 (1963 being the first year in which Mr Davis formulated the plan for the quintet although Mr Shorter did not arrive until ”Miles in Berlin” in 1965)...

Accordingly, I researched the discographies of each man (Miles seems only to have played on his own albums) and came up with a total of 58 albums, 14 of which I have no tracks from in the collection...

Here’s the relevant part...



The 44 albums I do have are noted above in chronological order of recording sessions...

The missing albums are:-
Jackie McLean - Vertigo
Jackie McLean - It's Time
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Tony Williams - Spring
Wayne Shorter - The Soothsayer
Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up
Ron Carter - Out Front
Lee Morgan - Delightfulee
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
Lou Donaldson - Sweet Slumber
Lee Morgan - Standards
Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator
Miles Davis - Directions

So now I have 390 minutes of cracking jazz on the hard drive for a 5CD set of the work of the Miles Davis Quintet 1963-1968...

Pointless...

Entertaining though...

Other than that – watched one episode of “CSI” and compiled and posted up three new podcasts re all the recent CD purchases – they include tracks from 25 of the discs acquired last week in Manchester...

Another 2 CDs and I will have the requisite 10 tracks for the next one...

Enjoy...

Highlight of the Day : Absolutely splendid jazz...